Cassidy & Adelaide Siblings names

[Peaches1906]

Expecting our second daughter, do you feel the name Adelaide is nice & goes well with her sibling Cassidy?

I’m concerned it’s a little too ‘out there’, but do love it & struggling with any alternatives.

thanks!

It’s not ‘out there” at all, it’s very traditional! I mean, why do you think the city of Adelaide is named that? (Adelaide of Saxe-Meinigen,wife of William IV).

ETA to say I think it’s a nice name.

What would it be shortened to? Laid? Not great for a girl!

Ada, surely?

Or not shortened. There's a novel idea!

Op I feel like it's less out there than Cassidy 🤣 but they work well

Cassidy is a surname.

But the OP appears to have already used it for an existing child.

Adelaide is nice but Cassidy not so much. David, Butch etc.

Yes our 2 year old is called Cassidy, and we shorten it to Cassie. I don’t think Butch Cassidy will be a problem for a child of this generation, I didn’t even know who they were until looking in to the name.

Adelaide we were thinking could be shortened to Ada, Della or Addie

A nice traditional name.

Adelaide is lovely, and shortens well to Addie. Ada doesn't make sense as a shortening to me, as the initial "A" sounds are different.

I like them together, and probably similar level of popularity at the moment? Cassidy sounds more modern and American, and Adelaide more traditional and European, but I don’t think it really matters.

It's fine.

Addie is the obvious short form and goes really nicely with Cassie (which I love 😍).

Cassidy is a beautiful name. I can't make any useful comment on Adelaide as I always think of it as being a city in Australia, not a person.

I love Adelaide. You can use Ada, Adela, Adele, Aidy, Lady, Della or Heidi as potential nicknames

Adelaide is nice, and Addie is lovely. I think it goes well with Cassidy (and I love Cassie).

Addison would go well too and give similar nicknames.

Adelaide is lovely, and was the name of my great grandma. It was shortened to Adele back then, Addie is lovely

Sounds very American

It actually sounds French to me, and I like the French pronounciation:

Add-i-lay- EEED.

Addy. I'm not keen but it's not awful.

It's German in origin. Variant form of Adelheid (which was Heidi's real name in the Johanna Spyri novel -- nasty Fraulein Rottenmeier always calls her that).

The French version is Adéläide, pronounced more 'A-dell-i-EED, roughly, @Calliopespa. (Which I think is a bit mouthfully for an English speaker...?)

Yes, I like the Adelheid too, but Adelaide is the French version, and I'm not sure of your pronunciation ( it was my French Great Aunt's name) but it can be hard to tell with "MN phonics" (which mine were too!)

It’s nice, quite formal. I do prefer Adeline, as I think Lena is pretty.

It's my (Parisian) best friend's mum's name -- she's originally from Alsace (and is vocal about having always hated her name!).

Cassidy and Adelaide are fine.

I prefer the full name Adele. It's fresh and less fussy.

I think they are both lovely names

I like Adelaide a lot. The only one I've met went by Addie.